Into the Unknown or British front pages about Brexit

Dorota MILLER

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-7159

Abstract

The following paper discusses front pages of British newspapers and magazines published on 31 January and 1 February 2020 and referring to the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU. The main goal of the analysis is to explore the idea of infotainment as a means to inform, entertain and capture the readers’ attention. The article draws on intertextuality in its broad sense involving verbal and visual references across particular texts. Apart from general remarks on divergent media representations of Brexit the article offers a more detailed analysis of three particularly noteworthy front pages where much is implicitly communicated and left to the (playful) interpretation of the reader.

Keywords:

cover, verbal and visual intertextuality, infotainment, Brexit